Dr Clint Knight ~ Lecturer, Psychology

Clinton Knight is a social and political psychologist with work and interests grounded in intergroup processes, social cognition, and individual differences.

Specific interests include:

• Acquisition and development of political and religious ideologies
• System legitimizing biases including patriotism and nationalism, collective consciousness, apathy and insight blindness.  
• Prejudice and ex-offender reintegration 
• Psychology of collective action, conflict and terrorism

 

 

Teaching

• PY4203: The Psychology of Health, Wellbeing and Resilience (Level 4; ONL)
• PY4204: Human Development Across the Lifespan (Level 4; ONL)
• PY4206: Learning, Memory, Cognition and Language (Level 4; ONL)

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Journal Articles

• Bastian B, Bain P, Buhrmester M, Gómez Á, Vázquez A, Knight C and Swann W (2015) Moral vitalism: seeing good and evil as real, agentic forces. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41 (8). pp. 1069-1081
• Knight C, Tobin S and Hornsey M (2014) From fighting the system to embracing it: control loss promotes system justification among those high in psychological reactance. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 54. pp. 139-146